The Testosterone Factor
This morning I received a chain email by a friend and colleague with the following content: "Normality March, 02 2008 By Faheem Hussain "It's very nice to be a sort of normal person for once, I think this is about as normal as I'm ever going to get." - Prince Harry on his time in Helmand Province in Afghanistan. The BBC reported these words with approval. It’s nice to know that this is what is considered normal for a young man in the UK. I guess it is normal to send 23 year olds to join an illegal occupation army. It is normal to call in air strikes (this was Harry’s job) to drop 1000-pound bombs on villages killing and destroying men, women, children, animals. It is normal to go on foot patrol in an occupied country and look down with contempt on the poor people of the country and it is normal to feel the hatred emanating from the people of the occupied country. I am sure that Prince Harry feels terribly elated and uplifted by his 10 weeks in Helmand where he di...